june 29, 2011 Acts 3:1-10 Psalms 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 Jn 21:15-19 Gal 1:11-20

Acts 3:1-10 

¹ Once, when Peter and John were going up to the Temple for the prayers at the ninth hour,
² it happened that there was a man being carried along. He was a cripple from birth; and they used to put him down every day near the Temple entrance called the Beautiful Gate so that he could beg from the people going in.
³ When this man saw Peter and John on their way into the Temple he begged from them.
⁴ Peter, and John too, looked straight at him and said, 'Look at us.'
⁵ He turned to them expectantly, hoping to get something from them,
⁶ but Peter said, 'I have neither silver nor gold, but I will give you what I have: in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, walk!'
⁷ Then he took him by the right hand and helped him to stand up. Instantly his feet and ankles became firm,
⁸ he jumped up, stood, and began to walk, and he went with them into the Temple, walking and jumping and praising God.
⁹ Everyone could see him walking and praising God,
¹⁰ and they recognized him as the man who used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple. They were all astonished and perplexed at what had happened to him.

Psalms 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 

I will praise Yahweh from my heart; let the humble hear and rejoice.

³ Proclaim with me the greatness of Yahweh, let us acclaim his name together.
⁴ I seek Yahweh and he answers me, frees me from all my fears.
⁵ Fix your gaze on Yahweh and your face will grow bright, you will never hang your head in shame.
⁶ A pauper calls out and Yahweh hears, saves him from all his troubles.
⁷ The angel of Yahweh encamps around those who fear him, and rescues them.
⁸ Taste and see that Yahweh is good. How blessed are those who take refuge in him.
⁹ Fear Yahweh, you his holy ones; those who fear him lack for nothing.

Jn 21:15-19 

5 When they had eaten, Jesus said to Simon Peter, 'Simon son of John, do you love me more than these others do?' He answered, 'Yes, Lord, you know I love you.' Jesus said to him, 'Feed my lambs.' ¹⁶ A second time he said to him, 'Simon son of John, do you love me?' He replied, 'Yes, Lord, you know I love you.' Jesus said to him, 'Look after my sheep.'
¹⁷ Then he said to him a third time, 'Simon son of John, do you love me?' Peter was hurt that he asked him a third time, 'Do you love me?' and said, 'Lord, you know everything; you know I love you.' Jesus said to him, 'Feed my sheep.
¹⁸ In all truth I tell you, when you were young you put on your own belt and walked where you liked; but when you grow old you will stretch out your hands, and somebody else will put a belt round you and take you where you would rather not go.'
¹⁹ In these words he indicated the kind of death by which Peter would give glory to God. After this he said, 'Follow me.' 

Gal 1:11-20

1 Now I want to make it quite clear to you, brothers, about the gospel that was preached by me, that it was no human message. ¹² It was not from any human being that I received it, and I was not taught it, but it came to me through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
¹³ You have surely heard how I lived in the past, within Judaism, and how there was simply no limit to the way I persecuted the Church of God in my attempts to destroy it;
¹⁴ and how, in Judaism, I outstripped most of my Jewish contemporaries in my limitless enthusiasm for the traditions of my ancestors.
¹⁵ But when God, who had set me apart from the time when I was in my mother's womb, called me through his grace and chose
¹⁶ to reveal his Son in me, so that I should preach him to the gentiles, I was in no hurry to confer with any human being,
¹⁷ or to go up to Jerusalem to see those who were already apostles before me. Instead, I went off to Arabia, and later I came back to Damascus.
¹⁸ Only after three years did I go up to Jerusalem to meet Cephas. I stayed fifteen days with him
¹⁹ but did not set eyes on any of the rest of the apostles, only James, the Lord's brother.
²⁰ I swear before God that what I have written is the truth.